While regulators have been testing crash impacts for decades, there’s a dearth of data on women, who face a higher risk of ...

It's well established that U.S. crash test dummies don't reflect the population. While female crash test dummies are used in other parts of the world, our crash tests still only use a dummy ...

Research released Thursday shows women have greater risk of injuries in vehicle crashes, supporting need for female-specific ...

Tesla’s Model 3 electric car, the company’s newest and arguably most important model, achieved a perfect 5-star crash test rating from the federal government’s NHTSA. The compact electric vehicle ...

It is finally happening. For the first time in the U.S., car manufacturers will be required to use female dummies for crash tests. The move will boost safety for women on board the vehicles. It took ...

The Office of Defects Investigation, or ODI, says that it received the reports from Tesla several months after the crash, the agency said in a statement released on Wednesday. The agency said under ...

What started as a standard safety evaluation turned into a major recall after a post-crash inspection exposed a faulty starter motor cover. Crash tests are designed to measure how well vehicles ...

Airbags, advanced driver assistance features, and high-strength materials mean that the safest cars today are far better at protecting people from injuries than ever before. Although most new cars ...

The Department of Transportation has taken a small but important step toward adopting and mandating the use of female crash test dummies that actually resemble women, something we inexplicably don't ...

There are some important differences in crash-test performance that set apart cars rewarded with the IIHS' Top Safety Pick and Top Safety Pick+ designations.